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About Elizabeth Brei

About Elizabeth Brei

Here are my most recent posts

Bingo Love has Laudable Aims but Its Storytelling Falters

February 2, 2018 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Queer people don’t usually get to see themselves live happily ever after in most media. We get the love stories that end in tragedy. This is largely because non-queer people are making most of the media that represents us–which means we’re not really represented in it at all. So it’s refreshing to see a book […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Bingo Love, comics, Image Comics, indie comics, Jenn St-onge, Joy San, Tee Franklin

Anarchist Cody Wilson Takes on the Government in The New Radical

December 1, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

The New Radical

It’s difficult to watch a documentary like The New Radical without bringing in your own biases. That’s likely the point, considering the title and the subject matter. It’s supposed to feel alienating and disarming, to make you consider viewpoints that aren’t your own, and certainly to make you a little bit angry and defensive. And […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Adam Bhala Lough, Amir Taaki, Cody Wilson, documentary, Film, The New Radical

Unsung Genius is on Display in Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

November 21, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Hedy Lamarr

In 2017, it’s not unusual to learn about women who have made major advances in science, technology, literature but have never been given the real credit they deserve for it. Rosalind Franklin was almost certainly the person who made the actual discovery of the double helix. Alice Guy’s husband took credit for the movies she […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Bombshell, documentary, Film, Hedy Lamarr

“Long Lost” #1 has the Creeping, Eerie Pace Every Horror Comic Needs

October 31, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Long Lost comic

Long Lost #1 refuses to answer questions. Written by Matthew Erman with art by Lisa Sterle, the book sweeps through plot points without pause, giving new information on almost every page, with an art style that varies in tone sometimes panel to panel. The book reads like a horror film, giving us enough character details […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, horror, Lisa Sterle, Long Lost, Matthew Erman

Hazel Newlevant’s Sugar Town is as Sweet and Pleasant as Its Name

October 12, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Sugar Town Hazel Newlevant

Stories about queer people can sometimes feel incomplete, even shallow. Even in 2017, it seems like a lot of stories focus on the sex, probably because that’s what straight people are likely to get hung up on when it comes to queer relationships. It’s foreign and novel, and just a bit naughty. But because of […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Hazel Newlevant, indie comics, Sugar Town

Low-Budget Disaster Drama Meets High School Comedy in Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea

April 26, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea begins as any number of high school films and TV shows does: with two weirdos on a school bus, on their way to the first day of a new school year, talking about how things are going to be different. This year, people will like Dash because […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: animation, Dash Shaw, Film, Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Maya Rudolph, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Reggie Watts, Susan Sarandon

The Brand New Testament Is A Surreal, Inventive Take On Mortality And God

March 21, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

The Brand New Testament, as its premise, poses a question everyone has pondered: What would you do with the rest of your life, if you knew exactly when it was going to end? Would you continue as normal or drop everything to live exactly as you’ve always wanted? The film considers this question in the […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: Brand New Testament, Catherine Deneuve, Film, Jaco van Dormael

My Life as a Zucchini is an Uncynical Take on the Orphanage Story

March 1, 2017 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

My Life As a Zucchini

My Life as a Zucchini looks like a children’s movie. The stop-motion film features characters, mostly children, with big heads and long limbs, round eyes and mouths, and oddly-colored hair. The title character looks vaguely like he came out of one of Tim Burton’s later attempts at an animated film, with blue hair and odd, […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: animation, Film, My Life as a Zucchini

Invoking the Supernatural, Miss Hokusai Considers the Concept of the Muse

November 16, 2016 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Miss Hokusai

Miss Hokusai is not shy about the mystical. Paintings come alive to tell stories of hell and suffering and drives a woman insane. A geisha’s ghost has to be trapped in a net during the night in order to keep it from flying away. Our protagonist O-Ei paints a dragon, not from her own imagination, […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: animation, Film, Miss Hokusai

Kate Leth, Megan Levens Give Us the Start of a Satisfyingly Fun Romp with Spell on Wheels

October 20, 2016 By Elizabeth Brei Leave a Comment

Spell on Wheels

Spell on Wheels is like a dream for girls who grew up on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. It works especially well for girls like me who moved on to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Regardless of the difference in tone and intention, both shows feature girls who suddenly find themselves with powers they don’t expect and […]

Filed Under: Features, Reviews Tagged With: comics, Dark Horse, Kate Leth, marissa louise, Megan Levens, Spell on Wheels

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